Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Difference between revisions
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma (view source)
Revision as of 02:43, 20 January 2022
, 2 years agoRescuing 3 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.6
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.5) |
(Rescuing 3 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8.6) |
||
Line 206:
=== Literature ===
* The ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' Saga series by Stephenie Meyer contains a copious amount of errors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006212200/http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/sentences_are_not_mini-vans Run-on sentences], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511145902/http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/Punctuation_Abuse poor punctuation] and [http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/search/comma comma] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131115063230/http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/comma_abuse abuse], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511145956/http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/capital_letters lack of capitalization], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511145802/http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/Sentence_Fragment fragments] but a few examples.
* [[Harry Harrison]] does comma splices, these are annoying. Supposedly, they're deliberate. He writes the book, then later goes through removing extra words and pauses in actiony parts in order to make it sound fast. Periods take longer than commas. Ironically, the incorrect punctuation is just going to slow most people down. The correct way to punctuate those sentences would be with a semicolon.
* José Saramago is particularly guilty of this, with paragraphs that sometimes extend ''over 5 pages''. He also sometimes uses no punctuation marks other than commas and periods, and doesn't explicitly indicate which character is speaking.
| |||